B.  Voting

 

§414-141  Shareholders' list for meeting. (a)  After fixing a record date for a meeting, a corporation shall prepare analphabetical list of the names of all its shareholders who are entitled tonotice of a shareholders' meeting.  The list shall be arranged by voting group(and within each voting group by class or series of shares) and show theaddress of and number of shares held by each shareholder.

(b)  The shareholders' list shall be availablefor inspection by any shareholder, beginning two business days after notice ofthe meeting for which the list was prepared is given and continuing through themeeting, at the corporation's principal office or at a place identified in themeeting notice in the city where the meeting will be held, or on a reasonablyaccessible electronic network; provided that the information required to gainaccess to the shareholders' list is provided with the notice of the meeting.  Ashareholder, the shareholder's agent, or the shareholder's attorney, shall beentitled on written demand to inspect and to copy the list, during regularbusiness hours and at the shareholder's expense, during the period it isavailable for inspection.  If the corporation determines that the list will bemade available on an electronic network, the corporation shall take reasonablesteps to ensure that such information is available only to shareholders of thecorporation.

(c)  The corporation shall make theshareholders' list available at the meeting, and any shareholder, theshareholder's agent, or shareholder's attorney, is entitled to inspect the listat any time during the meeting or any adjournment.

(d)  If the corporation refuses to allow ashareholder, the shareholder's agent, or the shareholder's attorney, to inspectthe shareholders' list before or at the meeting (or copy the list as permittedby subsection (b)), the circuit court, on application of the shareholder, maysummarily order the inspection or copying at the corporation's expense and maypostpone the meeting for which the list was prepared until the inspection orcopying is complete.

(e)  Refusal or failure to prepare or makeavailable the shareholders' list does not affect the validity of action takenat the meeting. [L 2000, c 244, pt of §1; am L 2001, c 129, §21; am L 2002, c130, §20]